Arizona Beach To Humbug

The last of the Rogue War chiefs to surrender after the 1856 Battle of Big Bend did so at Reinhart Creek, which enters the Pacific between here and Humbug Mountain in the distance. Chief John of the Applegates and his remaining band of about 30 warriors turned over their arms to Capt. Edward Ord and Major John Reynolds on June 29 and were led north to the newly established reservations on the Central Coast. In his diaries, Capt. Ord described the surrender: “There comes a long file of fierce looking fellows – in paint & feathers each with a fine rifle & at their head steps sternly & erect a hard faced grisly thin old man—in shirt sleeves & a small rimmed old Hat on top of his Head—its Old John I know at sight.”